Anglers Journal

A Fishing Life

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Happily Dazzled
It was good to sleep on the ground again. Good to hear a moose crashing through the underbrush behind the tent at 5 a.m., when we surprised each other in the dim light. It was good to find a place with elbow room to spare. And it was particularly ple
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Contributors
Sarah Aronson grew up trolling for salmon in Alaska’s Inside Passage and converted to fly-fishing upon moving to Missoula, Montana. Her piscine-heavy debut collection of poems, And Other Bodiless Powers, received the New American Poetry Prize. The ho
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Having been recently introduced to Anglers Journal, I find the photography incredible and the articles well-focused. I have been a surf fisherman for many years, and “Chasing Shadows” in the Winter issue struck a chord. I generally fish the backside
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Lost Creek Cay
The Mars Bay Bonefish Lodge on Andros Island is south of other fishing lodges, saving anglers and their Bahamian guides 10 miles of rough water and a trip around “The Point,” where several boats have capsized. Andros Island is known as the “Bonefish
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How I Got That Shot
Jessica Haydahl Richardson shot this photo of a 230-pound blue marlin 35 miles off Venice, Louisiana, earlier this year. She was aboard a SeaVee 390Z with Capt. Moe Newman of Journey South Outfitters, and the team had just tagged the fish. As Newman
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The Last Day He Was a Young Man
Buttercups posing in dew cascade down a mucky bank at dawn. My father has pointed them out with the tip of his cane pole as we glide by in lemoned light and shifting silences. He is a man who sees all that moves — even the tender grip of the sun on f
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Passion And The Gray Man
Turtle-shelled by two backpacks and with a four-piece rod in my free hand, I set my mind to Isle of Skye browns and not the armpit I faced in the London Underground. If there was an art to nonchalance, I had not mastered it. I had come to the United
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Omie Tillett (1929-2019)
Omie Tillett was born to be a fisherman. At 10 years old he was working the water with his father, and by 20 he was running his own boat. Tillett was 31 when he and business partner Warren O’Neal began building their first battlewagon, a Rybovich-ins
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The Armchair Angler
Edited by David Joy and Eric Rickstad Hub City Press With Gather at the River, David Joy and Eric Rickstad have shaped a confluence of contemporary writers and the waters and fish that made them who they are today. Natalie Baszile, C.J. Box, Ron Rash
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Southbound
It is the third week in September, and I am up at 4:45 a.m. and on the road a smidgen after 5 o’clock. Second car in the lot. The temperature dropped into the low 40s overnight, and the sky is as clear as new fond ice. I am surprised to see how much
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Rooted
Loons broadcast their haunting, ethereal calls while a pair of bald eagles gossip in a raucous twilight chatter. Buried nearly a foot deep under layers of thick blankets on a screened porch, I slowly peel back the covers from over my head and squint
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The Records Game
Chasing records is a game that Meredith McCord relishes. She believes each record pursued and fish caught makes her a better angler, and she credits her success to the knowledge, skill and patience of her guides. McCord’s average fight lasts three mi
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Tuna Tussle
The bite happens in a flash, so try not to blink. It’s easy to lose your focus to a wayward tuna grabbing some hang time, or to a marauding boobie dive-bombing the fray inches from the boat. Keep your eyes on that piece of plastic you flung into the
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Dangerous Dan
As we shoved off, I sensed only that launching the drift boat, or any boat for that matter, had been a hasty call, one that was unimpeachably mine. Rock Creek several Junes ago was treacherously high. It was also the first time I saw Dan Lahren row a
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At Sea
Chuck Bowie is 86. He lives alone except for a diabetic cat named Zoomie who requires two insulin shots a day. His house sits deep in the woods on the Eastern Shore of Maryland along a road lined with towering pines that is so narrow, two cars can ba
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At The Fishhouses
Although it is a cold evening,down by one of the fishhousesan old man sits netting,his net, in the gloaming almost invisible,a dark purple-brown,and his shuttle worn and polished.The air smells so strong of codfishit makes one’s nose run and one’s ey
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Hardwired
Becky-D’s old-school Chrysler 318 V-8 rumbles inside her 39-foot juniper-on-oak hull. Her owner, Capt. Ed Darwin, walks down to his dock on Mill Creek in Annapolis, Maryland. Capt. Jim Stickney, the mate, busies himself in the cockpit, setting out ji
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About The Artist
Ann Trainor Domingue has been a full-time painter since 2013, after a 30-year career in advertising. A lifelong New Englander who lives in Goffstown, New Hampshire, she aims to ground her work in the working waterfront. Nearly all of Domingue’s acryl
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My Boat My Life
Kevin Conroy’s waterfront restaurant in Rowayton, Connecticut, bustles with the energy of a local eatery. He ties up his Invincible 39 Open Fisherman at the dock adjacent to the outdoor seating area, and when he backs into the slip, he cranks the ste

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